Photographs from The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Sold to Benefit Acquisition Funds
O. Winston Link
1914 - 2001
Hot Shot Eastbound, Iaeger, West Virginia
gelatin silver print, signed in pencil and with the photographer's copyright stamp, numbered 'NW 1103' in ink, on the reverse
image: 15⅝ by 19¼ in. (39.7 by 48.9 cm.)
Executed in 1956, printed in 1998.
Please note that this lot will not be on view during the sale exhibition. It is located at our Long Island City, New York storage facility. If you would like to examine it in person before the sale please contact Anjli Patel at [email protected]
Condition Report
Provenance
Robert Mann Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above in 1999 by the present owner
Literature
Tim Hensley, America’s Last Steam Railroad: Steam, Steel & Stars, Photographs by O. Winston Link (New York, 1987), pp. 124-25
Preservation, “O. Winston Link” (Washington, D.C., 1999), p. 35
Catalogue Note
"The pleasure taken from these shots is almost illicit, less like looking at art and more like the jumping-up-and-down feeling of intense fun associated with the best rock ‘n’ roll, a handful of roller coasters, and the better precincts of childhood. It’s not about aesthetic savoring. It’s about unmediated joy." (Preservation, "O. Winston Link," pp. 35-36)